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Episode 356: Politics or Gender or Iron Man

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The boys wrap up a big year—a huge year—with an unintentionally thematic episode about feelings, expectations, nostalgia, and the black boxes of life, technological and otherwise.

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0:00.0

hello hello marlin hey happy new year buddy happy new year you know there's

0:07.8

not that many happy new year songs well there's the old

0:11.4

the old and yeah that's that was the only one I was gonna say I know of and you

0:15.4

got the sequel another old Langzahn by Dan Fogelberg mm-hmm mm-hmm I got a

0:20.4

six pack and drank it in his car hmm hmm I didn't really thought this thing

0:25.5

through no and is that a new year's song or is it simply a song people sing

0:31.8

at New Year's time old Langzahn yeah like what is that when you translate that

0:37.2

is it about a New Year's or is it just this is like a festive song we happen

0:41.2

all sing that's a good question I believe it's based on a poem by the great

0:44.9

Scott Robert Burns and boy it's fun to hear his poems read out loud

0:54.3

Langzahn look at it up Scott's poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and

1:01.9

such the tune of a traditional folk song it's played in G major G major well

1:08.1

especially the little bit farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight

1:11.4

by extension it's also sung at funerals hmm interesting yeah I don't know hmm

1:18.6

what a fissile Dan Dan big year huge year mm-hmm yes it has been 356 can you believe that

1:28.1

three all of these yeah that's right all they said I wouldn't do three they said you

1:32.7

wouldn't do three mm-hmm and you did them all in 2017 all three and 56 of them almost all of them

1:39.6

typically you know almost none of them were released we ended up having one usable

1:46.0

podcast episode that turned out to be turns out about once a week yeah I mean out of the what

1:51.4

are we doing 10 or 15 a week now 10 to 15 a week was them are just me crying only one of them is

1:56.6

is usable and that's not so I heard hobbles together for the other ones so tired all the time okay

2:04.3

rolling she started again okay I'll be better this time oh no I feel great I feel great

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